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Home » About us » Honorary degrees » 2006
Dr Peter Weston
Peter Weston was born in 1940, and received his secondary education at
Tiffin School, Kingston. He has a BA Hons in English from King’s College,
London and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Exeter.
He began teaching in 1962, becoming Head of English in a comprehensive
school in Berkshire before joining Southlands College in 1970 as a lecturer. In
1980 he was appointed Head of English of the four Roehampton Colleges,
leading the second largest department in the institution.
In 1985 he became Exchange Professor of English at San Francisco State
University in California, US.
On returning to Roehampton in 1986, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty
of Arts and Humanities, and later made proposals which led to the adoption of
a modular and semester-based curriculum in 1992–95, which continue at
Roehampton to this day.
Peter led the group which managed the application process which achieved
taught and research degree-awarding powers for Roehampton, granted in
1997. Thereafter he played a key role in the formation of the Surrey
Federation in 1999.
He published in books and journals during the 1980s, including A Critical
Study of Paradise Lost (Penguin, 1987). His expertise in quality and
standards led to his being invited to speak at universities abroad during the
1990s, in Bulgaria, Russia and Poland, among others.
In 1996 he was appointed Principal of Froebel College and University Pro-
Rector, a joint post which held until December 2003. He published in 1998 a
short biography of Froebel – the first in English for many decades – and in
2002 the first history of the College.
He retired in 2005 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He is currently Chair of the
Froebel Research Committee, a trustee of the Froebel Council and also of the
National Froebel Foundation, and President of the International Froebel
Society.
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